With the rain

[dennishoddy]

Comes the power outages.

Anybody still use the hurricane lamps?

 

[Sanford]

Replaced the hurricane lamps with Aladdin mantle lamps a number of years ago. Lots more light per lamp, though it appears they demand a premium price these days.

 

[jrusling]

I still have 3 of them, but have not used them for quite a while. I have several LED lanterns that give out a lot more light and on low last quite a while. I also have the rechargeable battery packs for them that I can charge off the solar system that is on the shop building or generator. I also picked up a couple of those LED candles at Walmart that are good for night lights.

 

[subprep]

Yep I have several, I like em alot. They are cheap and extremely handy when the power goes out.

 

[turkeyrun]

not hurricane lamps but, do have 8 Coleman lanterns. Don't use them in the house, though.

Using the LED types inside. Made some 'jumper cables' to hook the lamps to small AGC batteries, last for days.

 

[Shadowrider]

Meh....I just use one or both of my generators. I can run lights, TV, fridge, freezer and all manner of goodies. Those little Honda inverter generators are friggin awesome! Little noise, sips the gas and can still run computers and such. Last tornado I had the Fridge, TV, cell phones, a fan and a lamp on a 1000w Honda. Damn thing will ran for about 7 hours on a tank and it holds all of .6 gallons! Those lamps are for TEOTWAWKI and the power not coming back on at all.

 

[Brandi]

This made me think of when I was young, my mom always had several antique hurricane lamps around the house for decoration but whenever something happened and we lost power, which was often then, she'd go around fill them up and we'd use them until the power returned. It actually made for some nice quiet evenings that I remember fondly.

 

[willystruck]

Got a couple sittin in the garage waiting to be used.

 

[jrusling]

Meh....I just use one or both of my generators. I can run lights, TV, fridge, freezer and all manner of goodies. Those little Honda inverter generators are friggin awesome! Little noise, sips the gas and can still run computers and such. Last tornado I had the Fridge, TV, cell phones, a fan and a lamp on a 1000w Honda. Damn thing will ran for about 7 hours on a tank and it holds all of .6 gallons! Those lamps are for TEOTWAWKI and the power not coming back on at all.

I agree on the inverter generators, but I have a Yamaha 4 KW one. If it looks like it is going to be a long outage, I normally shut it down at night. If it was real bad, I would just run it a couple of hours in the morning and evening for the fridge and freezers.

 

[yukonjack]

I have 3 of the Aladdin mantle lamps at my place here in Anchorage. It's the most popular oil lamp up here. They put off a lot of light and heat as well.